Rebecca Jaffe, MD

Hospitalist division director, mom, adventurer. Committed to social change, & a sustainable future for docs & patients alike. tweets=my views, not employer

[Rebecca Jaffe, MD @RJmdphilly]

Welcome to “Into the Deep End: Challenges with Transition to Independent Practice," with @gretchendiemer @TKucheraMD @dmitripapa @Admiral_Chester and @RJmdphilly! I’ll be not-quite-live tweeting (in that I planned this in advance) so follow along! @acgme #ACGME23

[Rebecca Jaffe, MD @RJmdphilly]

@CalBear5 @TJUHospital @SocietyHospMed @QIHospitalist @SuchitBhutani @DrTrishHenwood @JeffAcCommons @JeffersonUniv @ResearchAtJeff Missed one more @CalBear5!! Morgan Esperance (@MGHHMU) presenting our @HOMERuN_Network SUD subcommittee rapid qual work on Hospitalists perspectives on caring for patients with Long Term Opioid Therapy and Acute on Chronic Pain presentations. I was there, but no jazz hands...

[Gretchen Diemer @gretchendiemer]

Dr Keith Leaphart giving our keynote address. Quality and equitable health care are inseparable.

[Rebecca Jaffe, MD @RJmdphilly]

@RyanLammMD @gretchendiemer @SoniaBharel Captured in action!

[Rebecca Jaffe, MD @RJmdphilly]

@mededdoc @DGlaucomflecken @giraffelabel This is one of my FAVORITE diagnoses!!!

[Rebecca Jaffe, MD @RJmdphilly]

@gretchendiemer @abbyWUim I’m expecting you to visit duty free on your way home so we can sip port and tonics after running the bridge to Jersey this spring

[Rebecca Jaffe, MD @RJmdphilly]

Turns out MLB has worse parental leave than academic medicine

[Rebecca Jaffe, MD @RJmdphilly]

@PaulNWilliamz I asked the same question to my brother last weekend only it was about the gecko he gave us.

Punch line is it was definitely not dead.

[Rebecca Jaffe, MD @RJmdphilly]

@gretchendiemer I love the “no question” option so much. Can we please put that on a mug?

[Rebecca Jaffe, MD @RJmdphilly]

@SoniaBharel rocking it with a first author perspective on HSS in meded. This is how we hospitalist!! Great read - congrats (and to @BMcGillenMD too)

@TJUHospital @DrGregoryKane

[Rebecca Jaffe, MD @RJmdphilly]

@gretchendiemer Is that @gretchendiemer, Philly Top Doc and MACP?
Nah, looks far too relaxed and rested to be so accomplished…

[Rebecca Jaffe, MD @RJmdphilly]

I was sad not to join this year but modeling work life balance for once??

[Michelle Brooks, MD, SFHM @michellebr00ks]

We missed their fearless leader! Sharpening my photoshop skills to get you in the picture with me, M & @aoglasser.

[Alan Kubey @CalBear5]

In summary @ #SHMConverge24, @TJUHospital Med contributed:
📌14 posters (1 finalist)
📌A '23 finalist refresh
📌2 lectures

Holy moly! Can we top it at #SHMConverge25?! @JeffMedChiefs , @JeffersonUniv SKMC, @ResearchAtJeff , @RJmdphilly - the bar is set! Let's get after it! 🧵✔️

[Alan Kubey @CalBear5]

Then for good measure, on Sunday & Monday, Dr. Lily Ackermann gave not 1 but TWO endo lectures. Talk about contributing to #SHMConverge24 in a multidisciplinary & varied set of ways! 🧵. . .

[Alan Kubey @CalBear5]

The final @TJUHospital Med poster of #SHMConverge24 is a wild case report by Drs. Patrick Kukulich and Rebecca Vento using RBC exchange to treat severe babesiosis! Wowers! Heck of a closer! 🧵...

[Alan Kubey @CalBear5]

Continuing the Sun case pres roll, Dr. Marie DiMattia presented her & Dr. Bharel's unique case of campylobacter bacteremia!
📌C. fetus may be spread 👩to🧑
📌Can involve endovascular structures
📌Can be relapsing remitting up to years!
📌Involve ID; ideal abx/duration ❓
🧵...

[Alan Kubey @CalBear5]

Sunday morning @TJUHospital Med @ #SHMConverge24 continued with a fascinating Dr. Barel and Vincent Del Duca case report on inflammatory mononeuritis multiplex AAV presentation. Wild! Love the @JeffersonUniv SKMC involvement with the division! 🧵...

[Alan Kubey @CalBear5]

Still more Sat night #SHMConverge24 fun with Dr. Yeager summarizing her #SHMConverge23 finalist work to a new audience! Great stuff, Dr. Yeager!🧵...

[Alan Kubey @CalBear5]

Rounding out non-finalist, that is! Sat night, Lily Ackermann & Jenna Fiore presented as a #SHMConverge24 finalist a 10-year collaborative @TJUHospital Med project w/ @RJmdphilly, @DrHowardWeitz & more to improve geriatric hip fx outcomes. TLDR: Pathway works! #EBM, #QI 🧵...

[Alan Kubey @CalBear5]

@TJUHospital @SocietyHospMed @LiottaMD @mjdipaolo Rounding out the Sat posters, Jen Valentine demonstrated a @TJUHospital Med team project to improve overnight resident education! Realtime feedback FTW! 🧵...

[Alan Kubey @CalBear5]

@TJUHospital @SocietyHospMed @LiottaMD @mjdipaolo Then Josh Bernard showed dramatic 📈 in physician & RN comm satisfaction & 📉 in disruptive calls, chats, orders w/ Interprofessional Bedside Rounding! Just 1 min! Alert RN to rounds w text then
1. Discuss RN ?s/concerns
2. Ask 4 RN order needs
3. Tell RN med plan
#IBR #QI 🧵...